Quotes Four

"The body is the portion of the soul which can be seen and touched."

--William Blake

"The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk outside of your body."

-- Katharine Hadley

"When nothing seems worth the effort . . . it's a screen to hide a wish that's worth too much."

--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time."

--T.S. Eliot,  Four Quartets

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow...

don't walk behind me, I may not lead...

just walk beside me and be my friend."

--Albert Camus

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to do what is right in the face of it."

--j. Johnson

"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore . . . unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible . . . it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors . . . to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown."

--Ferdinand Magellan, Explorer (c. 1520)

"For peace of mind resign as general manager of the universe."

--Larry Eisenburg

"Results! why, man , I have gotten lots of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

--Thomas a. Edison

"When you have power over yourself, circumstance has no power over you. Your inner weather is at your command."

-- Olga Rosmanith

"Solitude is the mother of anxieties."

--Puplilius Syrus

"Man is a pliant animal--a being who gets accustomed to anything."

--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The disease of men is this: that they neglect their own fields, and go to weed the fields of others."

--Confucius

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. only the wisest . . . achieve the second."

--Logan Pearsall Smith

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."

--Will Rogers

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

--Hyman Judah Schactel

"Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better off than those who try to do nothing and succeed."

--Lloyd James

"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything."

--Solomon Schechter

"Why hoard your troubles? they have no market value, so just throw them away."

--Ann Schade

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian."

--Dennis Wholey

"Only while sleeping do you make no mistakes. Mistakes are the privilege of the active person, who can start over and put things right."

--Ingvar Kamprad founder of Ikea

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